IBoard Pro Arduino ATMega2560 Board For Home Automation Robot Control

The Iboard Pro is a unique Arduino board which features a WIZnet Ethernet port with POE, an XBee socket, ITDB02 Serial/Parallel LCD module interface, RTC, nRF24L01+ module interface, Micro SD socket and an ATMega2560. This board will add wireless XBee control as well as internet connectivity to your projects. It’s great for anything from home automation to robot control. The possibilities are endless!

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The IBoard Pro is a unique Arduino board which features a WIZnet Ethernet port with POE, an XBee socket, ITDB02 Serial/Parallel LCD module interface, RTC, nRF24L01+ module interface, Micro SD socket and an ATMega2560. This board will add wireless XBee control as well as internet connectivity to your projects. It’s great for anything from home automation to robot control. The possibilities are endless!

IBoard Pro can be used as an Ethernet, wireless communication project development platform. IBoard Pro support POE (power on Ethernet) power supply, and Micro SD for mass storage. There are some 3pin electronic brick/ sensor brick interface breakout on board, it offer an easy way for a quick prototyping. You can setup a web server through which you may communicate with a remote Arduino using XBee radios, bluetooth or APC modules. This information can be posted to a web site, or to Twitter.

The board requires FTDI basic board to upload sketch, you can use our Foca board to do it. Iboard can be powered by a mini USB , power Jack or POE.

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Customer Reviews

I had hopes that this board will be all what I need, but it was not like that. It works well if you don't need I2C. The I2C pins of Mega are connected only to the RTC (DS1307) and all the other calls on the board for SCL/SDA are in fact Rx/Tx pins. There is no way to establish I2C communication without soldering. Not so nice. Rest works well.

I've been using a Arduno Mega2560 with separate ethernet shield and DS1307 RTC. The IBoard Pro does everything on one board and without the flaky connection between the mega and the ethernet shield. It does all this and more for a fantastic price too.

I downloaded my unmodified software and it worked just like my other setup first time.

The only request I would make is concerning the DS1307. This RTC chip has a square wave output on pin 7 which is not connected to anything on the IBoard Pro. It would be useful if this pin was connected to a jumper so that it can be used without having to solder directly to the chip.

I recently purchased 2 of these boards, I was many hours trying to make the SD from the LCD module to work, there is a critical error with this board, the chip select for the SD module in the LCD connector should be the pin#53 and it is connected to the microcontroller pin#4 so the CS of the LCD connector is the same as the microSD CS of the board, so you will not be able to use two cards, just one.

I have not tested more things but by now it is a bothering issue with this board

Salut,
I am currently evaluating the board and so far, the board is excellent and offers the functions of ethernet, SD card, RTC and ITDB02 interface for the price of a normal Arduino Mega.
I used a 3.2" TFT with the board and it worked right away.
I used a 8x32 LED Matrix (with TFT removed to free up the pins)
The full review can be found at http://www.mathias-wilhelm.de/arduino/arduino-boards/itead-iboard-pro
The review is in English and German
Ciao, Mathias (Posted on 12/19/2012)

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